Responding deputies found Jayme's parents, Denise and James, found dead from gunshot wounds.

Early on in the case, police said the Closs's front door had been kicked in on the night of the murders, but Barron County Sheriff Fitzgerald clarified at a press conference on Friday that it had been shot in with a shotgun.

Jayme, who police ruled out as a suspect in the killings, was missing from the home, and authorities believed she was in danger.

Authorities received thousands of tips in the months Jayme was missing

In this Oct. 23, 2018, file photo, volunteers cross a creek and barbed wire near Barron, Wis., on their way to a ground search for 13-year-old Jayme Closs who was discovered missing Oct. 15 after her parents were found fatally shot at their home. The Barron County Sheriff's Department said on its Facebook page that that the teenager Closs has been located Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, and that a suspect was taken into custody. Jeff Baenen/AP

When Jayme first went missing, the Barron County Sheriff's Department described her as likely abducted, after her parents were found dead.

Jayme's aunts pleaded for information about the teen

Jennifer Smith said she missed Jayme's giggles, and held up the teen's favorite iced coffee for the cameras.

"Jayme, not a moment goes by that we're not thinking of you and praying for you," Smith said. "We need you here to fill that hole in our hearts. We will never stop looking for you."

Smith and another aunt brought Jayme's pet dog to the news conference.

"Your dog, Molly, is waiting for you. She's sleeping in one of your sweatshirts," Smith said.

Jayme escaped from a cottage in Gordon, Wisconsin, on Thursday

In this Oct. 17, 2018, file photo, Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald speaks during a news conference about 13-year-old Jayme Closs who has been missing since her parents were found dead in their home in Barron, Wis. The northwest Wisconsin girl who went missing in October after her parents were killed has been found alive, authorities said Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP

Jayme had also reportedly banged on a neighbor's door and said, "This is Jayme Closs! Call 911!"

Resident Kristin Kasinskas brought Jayme into her home, where Jayme told her and her husband, Peter, she didn't know where she was or anything about the town.

Kasinskas told the Associated Press on Friday that Jayme told her that she did not know why she was targeted, only that Patterson "killed my parents and took me."

"She said to us that, 'This person killed my parents and took me,'" Kasinskas later told CNN. "She said that this person usually hides her or hides her when others are near, or when he has to leave the household. She did not go into detail about how she got out of the house or anything like that."

Kasinskas, a middle school science teacher, said she remembered Patterson being very quiet as a student, but didn't know him very well as a neighbor.

She said she didn't see Patterson in the three months that Jayme was missing.

The Douglas County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Jayme was found at 4:43 p.m. on Thursday, and a suspect was taken into custody 11 minutes later, according to the Associated Press.

A 21-year-old from Gordon, Wisconsin, was taken into custody on Thursday

Jake Thomas Patterson Barron County Sheriff's Department

Police received thousands of tips in the months following Jayme's disappearance, but it wasn't until she escaped the home that a suspect was revealed, when Jayme described his vehicle to police, Fitzgerald said at a press conference on Friday.

Fitzgerald said police were quickly able to find the vehicle, and arrested Patterson, who is now being held in a Barron County jail on homicide and kidnapping charges.

Patterson was not home when Jayme escaped, and investigators believe he was out looking for her when police picked him up, Fitzgerald said.

Patterson told police that he saw Jayme boarding the bus while he was driving to work one day, the criminal complaint said.

Patterson told investigators that he'd stopped by the Closs family home on two previous occasions with plans to take Jayme, but both times it was clear there were other people in the house, and he thought he'd be caught, the criminal complaint said.

Patterson was charged on Monday with two counts of intentional homicide, one count of kidnapping, and one count of armed burglary. His bail was set at $5 million cash.

Police say Patterson killed Jayme's parents to get to her

Patterson told investigators that he was "determined" to take Jayme that night, and was "going to kill anyone in the house because he could not leave any eyewitnesses behind," according to the complaint.

He said that if he had encountered officers that night, he "most likely would have shot at police."

Patterson had taken steps to hide his identity from the public as a search for Jayme carried on, Fitzgerald said, adding that he shaved his head so he wouldn't leave DNA at a crime scene.

When Patterson was arrested, he was found hiding in the home he grew up in, at a residence down the street from where Jayme was found, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Patterson's parents divorced in 2008, but the now-21-year-old and his brother, Erik Patterson, continued living in the Gordon home, according to the Associated Press. It's unclear where Erik lives now.

Neighbor Daphne Running told AP she and her husband once caught the brothers siphoning gas. Another neighbor, Patricia Osborne, said the brothers spent time in foster care and often got into trouble.

Patterson graduated from Northwood High School in Minong, Wisconsin, in 2015.

Upon graduation, Patterson worked at the turkey farm where Jayme's parents worked for two days during an unknown period, but it does not appear they interacted with him at the time, Fitzgerald said at a press conference.

During a search of the home that Jayme had escaped from, police recovered a shotgun that appeared to be consistent with what was used to kill Jayme's parents in October, though the gun still has to go through crime lab testing, Fitzgerald said.

Investigators believe Patterson acted alone. Patterson has no criminal history in Wisconsin, though his brother, has had multiple run-ins with the law, with convictions for marijuana possession, bail jumping and sexual assault, according to online records seen by the AP.

Jayme was trapped inside the Gordon, Wisconsin, home for 88 days

Jayme told police that Patterson would make her hide under his bed when he had friends over and that he made it clear that "nobody was to know she was there or bad things would happen to her."

Jayme said she was left under the bed with no food, water, or bathroom access for up to 12 hours at a time.

According to the complaint, Patterson would turn music on in his room so Jayme couldn't hear if anyone else was in the home.

Patterson told investigators that Jayme tried to escape twice, and the first time he banged on a wall and screamed in an attempt to scare Jayme from doing so again.

At one point, Patterson struck Jayme "really hard" on her back with what Jayme believed to be a handle of something used to clean blinds, the teen told investigators.

On the 88th day of captivity, Jayme crawled out of the space beneath the bed while Patterson was out of the house for five or six hours.

She told police she found of pair of Patterson's sneakers, putting them on so quickly that she put them on the wrong feet. She then left the home and ran into a neighbor, Jeanne Nutter, who was walking her dog.

Nutter took Jayme to another neighbor's home, and they called 911. Patterson was captured minutes.